Overview

• Law is a made up human concept. Laws are enforceable rules that, ideally, facilitates peaceful co-existence with one another, although this logic is not evident in most of the existing laws today.
• As a human construct, there is no objectively correct ‘law’; they are simply the rules we choose to live by. We must use reason to determine a framework of laws that align with justice.
• The golden rule, to treat others as we wish to be treated, is such a framework that all reasonable people agree on. The most serious aspect of the golden rule is not to aggress against others - 3L calls this the Legal Principle. It is this ‘least common denominator’; the rule that all those seeking peaceful and free co-inhabitation agree upon. It is ‘essential’ meaning necessary, universal and minimal.
• All the countless other laws enforced around the world today that outlaw non-aggressive behaviours are merely moral preferences forced on other people. One key insight 3L offers is that freedom and peace require we take our moral preferences out of the law.